The original source for these histories was the ‘Local Transport Histories’ website
by kind permission of Peter Gould. He has since relinquished the domain www.petergould.co.uk,
but this has been purchased by another individual who has loaded the histories back
onto the Internet using this domain name, albeit without Peter’s permission. These
fleet histories are out of date, no longer revised and not endorsed by Peter (and
contain commercial links) - you will find most of them on this website now in PDF
format with illustrations and updated where possible, plus many others not on the
original site.

We would like to offer our thanks to the following who have kindly allowed us to
publish their photographs in our booklets: John Kaye (also John Boylett); Donald
Hudson; David Lang; Paul Haywood; Barry Rennison; Mike Morant (also W. J. Wyse);
Mike Beamish; Keith Butcher; David Beilby; Ken Aveyard (also Wimborne Railway Society
Archive); Chris Hough; Bernard Warr; David Mitchell (also Robert Mitchell); Roland
Wilcox; Alan Hall; Martin Clark; Larry Goddard; Roy Marshall; John Stringer; Ashley
Birch; National Tramway Museum; Tramway & Light Railway Society; D. J. Norton; Michael
Keeley (also Patrick Keeley); Stuart Little; Bruce Tilley; Chris Stewart (also Essex
Bus Enthusiasts Group); Trevor Brookes; Commercial Motor Archive; John Ryan; Barry
Nunn; Peter Williamson; Stephen Howarth; Peter Green; Brian Pask; Great Eastern Railway
Society; Science and Society Picture Library; Brian Townsend; Richard Simons; Pennine
Heritage Ltd (with special thanks to Frank Woolrych); Todmorden Antiquarian Society;
Atack Family collection; Getty Images; Doug Nicholson; Eric Thompson; Joe Gornall;
Malcolm Jones; The Bus Archive; Roger Cox; Michael Rhodes and John Briggs. We have
also used photographs from other photographers in our publications but unfortunately
have been unable to contact them - full credit has been given where appropriate and
if you see any of your photos in our booklets we would be grateful if you would confirm
you have no objections to their use. Unattributed photographs are credited to the
LTHL collection - if you spot any of your photographs please get in touch, we will
credit them correctly or remove them if you wish. We would also like to thank the
following authors for permission to publish their works in our booklets; Neville
Mercer; Dave Taylor; Roger Cox.

We are grateful to the PSV Circle for permission to use information from their fleet
lists etc. in compiling the fleet lists in our PDF booklets. For more detailed information
we recommend you visit their website for details of available publications.

We would
like to thank David Lang for his patience in asking contributors to his website for
permission to publish their photographs in our PDF booklets. Please take the time
to visit the sct’61 website which is full of historic bus photos.

Our thanks are also
extended to Mike Beamish for making his photographic collection available to us to
illustrate our booklets. Check out his website -Mikes Bus Pages.

About the Library

The enactment of the 1985 Transport Act on 26th October 1986 (de-regulation) effectively
ended municipal operations throughout the country and this date has been used as
a convenient cut-off date for the municipal histories, even though operations may
have continued in the private sector after this date. We have also used this date
as a convenient cut-off date for most of the companies in the private sector and
most of our histories are pre-deregulation when the passenger transport industry
was changed forever and many historic names were lost to corporate identity. This
site attempts to chronicle the industry up until that time, although some leeway
is given to companies and undertakings that have or had a substantial history before
that date (e.g. John Fishwick & Sons Ltd).

All publications on this site are in PDF format - they are readable on most devices
including iPad, iPhone, Android and Kindle tablets with the Adobe PDF download.

The body and seating codes used in our publications are the standard PSV Circle codes
and can be viewed HERE if you are uncertain about any of them.

Photo Collections

John Blannin Collection: A collection of around 10,000 colour photographs taken between
1960 and 2015, kindly donated to the LTHL. It is currently being catalogued and recorded
and will be made available to enthusiasts once this has been done.

If you have a collection of historic photographs, books or anything bus related you
wish to dispose of then please get in touch - don’t bin them - we can usually arrange
a pick up.

Contact Us

We are always grateful for further information or archive and historic photographs
for inclusion in second and future editions of our PDF booklets. If you can help
then please email us. If you spot any mistakes or typo errors please get in touch.
If you have anything you think might be of interest to us that we can publish in
PDF format please let us know - we are always interested in unpublished material
- as long as you have copyright.